According to people close to him, he actually does mean lizard people when he talks about lizard people. Make of that what you will.

and jobs all over the place,

What? That doesn’t line up at all with how anyone is selling the damn things! The entire pitch coming from the industry is that it will remove jobs! “Stop hiring humans” anyone? Am I crazy?!

Of course not. Donnie was probably given some talking points from his billionaire buddies, and being the person he is, didn’t read them. I doubt he even knows what a data center does. They’re just something he was paid to say we should want. We already know he’s not exactly 100% there mentally, and we already know it is really easy to bribe the fucker, so this shouldn’t be a surprise.

Still, the fact that anyone still thinks that getting this guy to endorse a product will help make it more popular with the public continues to confound me.

A guy who outright calls himself a “theocratic fascist”, makes documentaries so blatantly manipulative that they look like something out of a parody, is quoted as saying he violates his children’s consent all the time, and is weirdly obsessed with what age women are most fertile. He also works for Charlie Kirk’s company because of course he does.

It’s kind of genius in a metatextual way, because that’s exactly what would make an artifact like the Death Note so tempting in the first place. During the stint where Light loses his memory for a bit, you get the impression that he would just be a regular person if he never had the notebook in the first place. He could have grown up to be a cop like his dad. But one day he finds himself with the power to kill instantly and anonymously, and who wouldn’t at least think about using that in a world where injustice happens every day?

I think it’s a near universal human experience to see a horrific crime on the news and think “that person should hang”. It’s a form of temporary tribalism that affects even the most hardened opponents of capital punishment. But most of us are never given a means of acting on that dark thought, so it just remains a thought and we move on. I think what makes Death Note such a great concept is that Tsugumi Ohba tapped into this experience and really examined it.

God, I love this series. Can you tell?

They didn’t disappear in Z. You can still see them in select filler episodes. It’s just that with the show going into space and the afterlife and what have you, there’s less time available to show off the eccentricites of Toriyama’s Earth.

They actually do this joke in one of the newer Mickey Mouse cartoons.

Is this a bit?

I saw Tony Hawk in an ad for arthritis medication a while back. I turned to my dad and said “I cannot overstate how cool this guy used to be.”

Various sources mention that at the time of his death he had left descendants of 32 puppies with 6 different dogs.

Lucky boy. Good for him.

Yeah. And it turns out the oppressed class really does have a genetic inclination to violence.

I get what you’re trying to say, but I just wanted to point out that not every military job is boots on the ground killing people. They also have desk jobs and maintenance people and whatnot. Military bases employ a whole lot of people who will never see combat.

How about BNA: Brand New Animal using the last four episodes to shit all over its own moral? I’ve never seen a work of fiction do anything like that. I couldn’t look away, it was like a trainwreck.

Active communities. Some of the comms for my interests technically exist, in that they get one post every third month that gets 2 upvotes. Despite everything, these communities are still thriving on Reddit. Yet for whatever reason, any attempt to replicate them here fails. Smh

“If you choose not to decide, you still have made a choice!”

• Rush, Freewill

Not even joking, I find myself quoting this all the time.

Sorry, I don’t have internet in my shower, so I couldn’t look up if it was still true. I think it was still China a decade or two ago.

Pepper Wolf

Eurasian MMA Dynasty

Legendary Americans

Dead Presidents

Billy Cult

Crush 52,601

Electric Light Academy of the Arts

Caravan Kingdom

This is fun. I could do this all day.

It’s just in V, DDS, and IMAGINE. He also appears in IV:A, but as a playable character instead of a superboss.

What a coincidence. I was playing SMT V. I guess that means I eventually kick your ass.

I can’t keep doing this! I’m going thermonuclear over here! I’m going to fucking kill someone!

We know for a fact that Red Ribbon hired at least one gay person and that he rose the ranks to all the way to general. Sure it wasn’t handled all that sensitively, but it was a different time.

https://dragonball.fandom.com/wiki/General_Blue